[Bug 5654] New: Help text for clone -r option is unclear
mercurial-bugs at mercurial-scm.org
mercurial-bugs at mercurial-scm.org
Sat Aug 12 01:57:32 UTC 2017
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5654
Bug ID: 5654
Summary: Help text for clone -r option is unclear
Product: Mercurial
Version: 3.8.4
Hardware: PC
OS: Windows
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: bug
Priority: wish
Component: Mercurial
Assignee: bugzilla at mercurial-scm.org
Reporter: david.a.hollman at carrier.utc.com
CC: mercurial-devel at mercurial-scm.org
The help text shown for the -r option to clone is:
"include the specified changeset"
To the best of my understanding while this is technically a true statement it
does not seem like a complete description of the -r option.
Note - the web documentation at
https://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#clone does give an example where it
explains that -r will "create a repository without changesets after a
particular revision". This seems better, but still a somewhat stilted way of
making the core point.
It would make more sense to me if it said something like "clone up to and
including the specified changeset".
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